Solr Search · Discover Production

to Vietnam after the pull-out from Laos and he wanted somebody to go out and buck up [President Ngo DinhJ Diem. President Kennedy told me that he had a terribly tough time persuading Lyndon Johnson to make LBJ Presidential Library http
Vietnam
potential as president; bitterness between Bobby Kennedy and LBJ; Bartlett's relationship with President Johnson and his White House staff; Vietnam War; Robert Kennedy's run for presidency; impressions of Kennedy family role in Johnson's selection of Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Jane Engelhard, interview 1 (I), 2/19/1977, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Vietnam
; Committee for the Preservation of the White House; the White House crèche; highway beautification bill; Mike Mansfield; the death of President Holt of Austalia; traveling from Australia to Vietnam and Rome with LBJ; visiting the Vatican; LBJ’s decision

Oral history transcript, Peter B. Benchley, interview 1 (I), 11/20/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

was exhorting this Indian about Vietnam and towering above him, waving a hand at him . He gave that story which he subsequently used . I hadn't heard it before then--in which he with grand gestures would say that, "all he wanted was if Uncle Ho Chi would take
Vietnam
Biographical information; TIME & A TICKET; LBJ's remarks regarding Vietnam; LBJ's reading and general knowledge; speech writing and the staff; "cussers/doubters/nervous-nellies;" consumer interest information; speech schedule put out on Fridays

Oral history transcript, William J. Crockett, interview 1 (I), 5/28/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 2 (II), 11/29/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

I can re:r:cmber right nOW--'tVe met with the idea of getting up a full-pagfo on it saying, "He're it That group you just H: No. '\\fhat VIC right around there. Q~nti0ned did ,'las pl~::' York Times with a big headline Vietnam

Oral history transcript, Edie Adams, interview 1 (I), 5/13/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

as Vietnam became more of a problem. But was it in a sense unified, or did you have a wide range? A: I would say a wide range. with him. All the way through, I must say I was A lot of the Hollywood people like Shirley Maclaine and Sandy Vanocur

Oral history transcript, Eugene Worley, interview 1 (I), 10/16/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

Discover Our Collections